“Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic Connectedness.” Nature 608 (7921): 122-134, 2022. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Fluegge, Sara Gong, Federico Gonzalez, Armelle Grondin, Matthew Jacob, Drew Johnston, Martin Koenen, Eduardo Laguna-Muggenberg, Florian Mudekereza, Tom Rutter, Nicolaj Thor, Wilbur Townsend, Ruby Zhang, Mike Bailey, Pablo Barber ́a, Monica Bhole, and Nils Wernerfelt (2022b). “Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility.” Nature 608 (7921): 108-121, 2022.Ĭhetty, Raj, Matthew O. Jackson, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Fluegge, Sara Gong, Federico Gonzalez, Armelle Grondin, Matthew Jacob, Drew Johnston, Martin Koenen, Eduardo Laguna-Muggenberg, Florian Mudekereza, Tom Rutter, Nicolaj Thor, Wilbur Townsend, Ruby Zhang, Mike Bailey, Pablo Barber ́a, Monica Bhole, and Nils Wernerfelt (2022a). Social Capital II: Determinants of Economic ConnectednessĪny researcher using the data should reference/cite the following papers:Ĭhetty, Raj, Matthew O. Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility This includes our volunteering rate measure.Ī visualization of this data is available here: Research publications for the Social Capital Atlas dataset are available here: This includes our clustering and support ratio measures.Ĭivic Engagement - Indices of trust or participation in civic organizations. This includes our main economic connectedness measure.Ĭohesiveness - The degree to which friendship networks are clustered into cliques and whether friendships tend to be supported by mutual friends. We construct three measures of social capital:Ĭonnectedness - The extent to which people with different characteristics are friends with each other.
See the accompanying README.pdf and papers published in Nature for more details on data construction, methods, and results.
We use methods from the differential privacy literature to add noise to these aggregate statistics to protect privacy while maintaining a high level of statistical reliability. The Social Capital Atlas dataset is the result of a collaboration between Meta, Opportunity Insights, and researchers from Harvard, New York University, and Stanford.
These datasets provide measures of Social Capital for counties, ZIP codes, high schools, and colleges in the United States based on data from Facebook. China, Hong Kong Special Administrative RegionĬhina, Macao Special Administrative Region